Search Results - "Preluders"

Summer lightning : a guide to the second Battle of Manassas / by Spruill, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Maneuvering to Battle -- Thursday, August 28, 1862 -- Friday, August 29, 1862 -- Saturday, August 30, 1862 -- The Aftermath -- Appendix I: Union Order of Battle -- Appendix II: Confederate Order of Battle -- Appendix III: Casualties -- Appendix IV: August 30, 1862, South Flank Cavalry Engagement -- Appendix V: The Stone Bridge -- Appendix VI: August 28, 1862, Thoroughfare Gap.…”
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Damming Grand Canyon The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.…”
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Damming Grand Canyon : The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition / by Boyer, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…politics, the Colorado River Compact, and the Geological Survey's role -- Prelude to an expedition : Washington and Flagstaff -- A cumbersome journey : Flagstaff to Lee's Ferry to the Little Colorado River -- Surveys and portages : Furnace Flats through the Inner Gorge -- Of flips and floods : Bass Canyon to Diamond Creek -- Feeling their oats : Diamond Creek to Needles -- Aftermath : politics and the strident hydraulic engineer.…”
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Leadership in the crucible the Korean War battles of Twin Tunnels & Chipyong-ni / by Hamburger, Kenneth Earl, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Ralph Monclar -- Matthew Ridgway and a new war -- Wonju and patrols to Twin Tunnels -- The battle of Twin Tunnels -- Prelude to Chipyong-ni -- Isolated and encircled at Chipyong-ni -- Fighting and surviving on the second day -- Task force Crombez runs the Gauntlet -- Aftermath and reflections.…”
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Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci / by Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945

Table of Contents: “…A prelude to "Cav" and Pag" -- Verisimo : tryuth and realism -- Cavalleria rusticana provenance -- Principal characters in Cavalleria rusticana -- Brief synopsis -- Story narrative : with music highlight examples -- Commentary and analysis -- Libretto -- I Pagliacci provenance -- Principal characters in I Pagliacci -- Brief synopsis -- Story narrative with music highlight examples -- Commentary and analyis -- Libretto -- Discography (Cavalleria) -- Discography (I Pagliacci) -- Videography -- Dictionary of opera and musical terms.…”
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Haunted Empire : Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny / by Sobol, Valeria

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : From the Island of Bornholm to Taman' : The Literary Trajectory of the Russian Imperial Uncanny -- A Gothic Prelude : Nikolai Karamzin's "The Island of Bornholm" -- In search of the Russian Middle Ages : The "Livonian Tales" of the 1820s -- "Gloomy Finland" and Russian Gothic Tales of Assimilation -- Ukraine : Russia's Uncanny Double -- On Mimicry and Ukrainians : Empire and the Gothic in Antonii Pogorel'sky's The Convent Graduate -- 'Tis Eighty Years Since : Panteleimon Kulish's Gothic Ukraine.…”
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The end of empire in French West Africa France's successful decolonization? / by Chafer, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to decolonization : the Popular Front and the Second World War -- New political context, 1944-6 -- Decolonization through assimilation : the struggle for emancipation, 1946-50 -- Building the nationalist movement, 1950-6 : the trade union, student and youth movements -- Policy and politics, 1950-6 -- The Loi-cadre and the 'Balkanization' of French West Africa, 1956-60 -- Nationalist politics and the campaign for independence, 1957-60 -- Conclusion : decolonization and the French colonial legacy.…”
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Gun control in the Third Reich : disarming the Jews and "enemies of the state" / by Halbrook, Stephen P.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Nazi seizure of power -- Disarming the politically unreliable : the case of Brandenburg -- Defining enemies of the state -- From the night of the long knives to the Nurnberg laws -- The Gestapo -- Hitler's gun control act -- October prelude : arresting Jewish firearm owners -- Goebbels orchestrates a pogrom -- Jewish victims speak -- Conclusion : whither the German resistance, whither the holocaust?…”
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The Tet Offensive a concise history / by Willbanks, James H., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Historical overview -- Prelude -- Border battles, hill fights, and Khe Sanh -- The Tet Offensive -- The battle for Hue -- The siege of Khe Sanh -- The impact of the Tet Offensive -- Assessing the Tet Offensive -- Issues and interpretations -- Motivations and objectives of the Tet Offensive - Military intelligence and surprise at Tet -- What happened at Hue? …”
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Wizard 6 a combat psychiatrist in Vietnam / by Bey, Douglas, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to Vietnam -- Stepping through the looking glass -- Black and white in Vietnam -- Diagnosing and treating patients in the division -- The Viet Cong's perception of mental illness -- Drugs and alcohol -- Civilian health care -- High-risk individuals and REMFs -- High-stress periods -- The first R&R -- Escaping from stress -- Time grinding on -- Madness and medals -- Getting away to Saigon and the second R&R -- Coping with Vietnam -- Short and leaving Vietnam -- And I say to myself.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: So what? -- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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The Muslim-Croat civil war in Central Bosnia a military history, 1992-1994 / by Shrader, Charles R.

Table of Contents: “…The operational milieu -- Organization of the opposing forces -- Command, control, and communications -- Training, doctrine, and logistics -- Prelude to civil war in central Bosnia -- The ABiH probing attack, January, 1993 -- The ABiH main attack, April, 1993 : the Vitez area -- The ABiH main attack, April, 1993 : Busovaca, Kiseljak, Zenica, and elsewhere -- The continuation of the Muslim offensive, May-June, 1993 -- The continuation of the Muslim offensive, July-August, 1993 -- Operations from September, 1993-February, 1994.…”
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Lloyd George at war, 1916-1918 by Cassar, George H.

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage -- The home front: The search for a manpower policy ; The challenge of labor ; Controlling shipping and food -- Strategy and the war: The first attempt at a unified command ; Facing the submarine menace ; Prelude to catastrophe ; The horror of Passchendaele ; The peripheral war ; The quest for a negotiated peace ; The creation of the Supreme War Council ; The plans for 1918 ; Before the storm ; Crisis on the western front ; The Maurice Affair ; The origins of intervention in Russia ; The German advance halted ; The turn of the tide ; The road to the armistice -- Conclusion.…”
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The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation African Americans and the fight for freedom / by Brasher, Glenn David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an evening on Malvern Hill -- Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula -- Contraband of war: April-July 1861 -- War is a swift educator: July-December 1861 -- The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862 -- The monuments to negro labor: April-May 1862 -- Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862 -- An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862 -- A higher destiny: July 1862 -- Conclusion: monarchs of all they survey.…”
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Insidious foes the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front / by MacDonnell, Francis

Table of Contents: “…1. Prelude to the Fifth Column Scare: The Lessons of World War I -- 2. …”
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The tragic and the ecstatic the musical revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde / by Chafe, Eric Thomas, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…The path to Schopenhauer -- Tristan and Schopenhauer -- Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg I : Minne -- Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg II : Honor -- The desire music -- The Prelude : a musico-poetic view -- Tragedy and dramatic structure -- The two death motives -- Musico-poetic design in Act 1 -- Act 2, Scene 1 : night and Minne -- The Love Scene in Act 2 : transition and periodicity -- Tristan's answer to King Mark : moral and philosophical questions -- Act 3 : musico-poetic design -- Love as fearful torment -- The road to salvation.…”
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New Orleans after the promises poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society / by Germany, Kent B., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…-- A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city -- Establishing the early war on poverty -- Building community action -- Challenging the establishment and the color line -- Making better and happier citizens -- Defusing the southern powder keg -- Making workers and jobs -- Making groceries -- Making a model New Orleans -- The thugs united and the politics of manhood -- Women, welfare, and political mobilization -- Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971 -- Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism -- Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina.…”
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Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory a mathematical primer / by Dimock, Jonathan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Non-relativistic: 1. Mathematical prelude; 2. Classical mechanics; 3. Quantum mechanics; 4. …”
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Malory's Originality : A Critical Study of Le Morte Darthur /

Table of Contents: “…Dichmann -- The tale of Lancelot: prelude to adultery / R. .M. Lumiansky -- The tale of Gareth: the chivalric flowering / Wilfred L. …”
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Concerto for the left hand disability and the defamiliar body / by Davidson, Michael, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: the pool -- Introduction: concerto for the left hand -- Strange blood: hemophobia and the unexplored boundaries of queer nation -- Phantom limbs: film noir's volatile bodies -- Hearing things: the scandal of speech in deaf performance -- Tree tangled in tree: resiting poetry through ASL -- Missing Larry: the poetics of disability in Larry Eigner -- Nostalgia for light: being blind at the museum -- Universal design: the work of disability in an age of globalization -- Organs without bodies: transplant narratives in the global market -- Afterword: disability and the defamiliar body -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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